React app to search blood banks in India

Aug 16, 2016

I have been playing around with data & APIs from data.gov.in for a while now to see if I can build some useful app in my free time. One dataset that I particularly liked is blood banks in India. Well, there are already a few sites that let you search for a blood bank using city name, pin code etc.

I wanted create this app to implement what I have learnt in React / Flux / Alt.js. Though I have been using these in a couple of projects at work, I wanted to do some app from scratch. This is not really a complex app - it just has a text box which takes city / pin code as input and lists all blood banks that match the query.

If you just want to check out the app, here you go (It’s not fancy, you’ve been warned):

App is built using React with Flux architecture. I have used Alt.js to manage the state of the app. I use Webpack for bundling JS & SCSS/CSS (yet to write a dev config for webpack though!).

I am using static data from here. Since I wanted the data to be transformed to a more usable format, I wrote a small utility module. Also published it on npm. I also wrote another npm module to index JSON which makes it convenient to filter data. They are not super useful modules, but helped me learn how to publish a module to npm, how to use Travis CI for testing builds and coveralls to check test coverage. Test cases are written using Mocha and Chai. You can find the code on Github - https://github.com/tsriram/blood-banks-list

All assets (JS/CSS/JSON) are served through rawgit (Thanks to those good folks!)